Category:Differentiated Instruction
From New Teacher Handbook
There are five key concepts for differentiated instruction:
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Content
What is taught; accessibility to the information and ideas that matter.
- Use texts at varying reading levels
- Provide organizers and anticipation guides for note-taking
- Use examples and illustrations based on student interests
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Process
How students come to understand and "own" the knowledge, skills, and understanding.
- Vary the pacing of student work
- Use cooperative grouping
- Develop activities that lead to a variety of perspectives on topics
- Highlight critical content in the text
- Segment and tier large assignments and projects
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Product
Student demonstration of what he or she has come to know, understand, and be able to do.
- Provide bookmarked Internet sites at different levels of complexity for research
- Develop rubrics for success based on grade level expectations and individual student learning needs
- Teach students to use a range of presentation tools and products – technology
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Affect
Student linking of thought and feeling in the classroom.
- Model respect
- Help students develop multiple perspectives on topics and issues
- Encourage equitable participation of each student
- Provide supported practice
- Allow for choice and individuality
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Learning Environment
- Classroom function and feeling.
- Arrangement of furniture for individual, small group and whole group
- Availability of supplies and materials
- Procedures and management techniques for various arrangements and tasks
